{"id":340,"date":"2012-04-17T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T18:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2012-04-17T11:18:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T18:18:32","slug":"why-have-a-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/why-have-a-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Have a Website?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses choose to have an online presence for multiple reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Connecting with new clients is typically a motivating reason for moving online.<\/p>\n<p>Tired of paying phone book directories which seem to be archaic means a business has to be <strong>somewhere<\/strong> in order to compete.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my clients wanted an online brochure.\u00a0 Presenting your past workmanship is a breeze, with the ability to show more content than hauling portfolios to prospective clients.<\/p>\n<p>A wesbite can serve to give basic information from your phone\u00a0number\u00a0to hours of operation for a past client who lost your phone number.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a time saver for businesses answering phone calls to give this basic info &#8211; everyone is happy.\u00a0 A website is your 24\/7 contact point.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the one which the Internet has taught us: a website adds legitimacy to any business.\u00a0 When considering doing hiring a company their website is just the place to research them before picking up the phone. While they have built the website and control the message &#8211; it&#8217;s a beginning.<\/p>\n<p>I recently needed a product which was &#8220;difficult&#8221; to find.\u00a0 The online community\u00a0 buzzed with\u00a0resources to find this item.\u00a0 A simple Google search on the company name and I found they are located 3 miles from me.\u00a0 Despite the location not being a typical retail store, they do sell at this facility.\u00a0\u00a0A huge time saver for me.<\/p>\n<p>Not having a website is no longer an option.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/website-design.html\">http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/website-design.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses choose to have an online presence for multiple reasons. Connecting with new clients is typically a motivating reason for moving online. Tired of paying phone book directories which seem to be archaic means a business has to be somewhere &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/why-have-a-website\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[173,4,104],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-first-website","tag-online-business","tag-small-business-website","tag-web-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}